Due to the covid-19 pandemic, the economy in the US was harmed greatly, the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) declined by 5.1% in the first two quarters of 2021. In general, such pandemic created the worst recession since the Great Depression. Hence, we mainly tried to find out and investigate the income level for the U.S. in 2021. In this project, we mainly want to analyze and visualize the income level across all counties in the US in 2021. We include the average wage level, number of establishments, and the changes in these values as measurements for the income level across all counties. The data we used for our final income level project is from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics. (https://data.bls.gov/cew/apps/table_maker/v4/table_maker.htm#type=1&year=2021&qtr=2&own=5&ind=10&supp=0)

Here is an interactive table which shows the dataset we got, it describes all measurements for the income level across all the counties in the US, including but not limited to the measurements I mentioned above like average wage level and so on…… Our following project is primary based on the dataset above. First we have several maps illustrating the overall income distribution across the states. Then following by few pieces of interactive plot showing that the comparison between different states.

Since the average wage level is directly related to the income level, we first plotted an interactive map to describe the average wage for each county. Here, we plotted a map to portray over the year changes in the average weekly wage, here we can see the counties in central America and the west coast tend to have an uprise trend for the average wage level.

In order to learn more about the number of establishments which represents the number of working opportunities for all the counites, we also plotted the map with the counts of establishments, here we can see compared to counties in other states, the counties in California have the great number of work opportunity.

The count of establishment plot shows the number of newly established companies, based on the following graph, we can notice that there has no big difference between the states from east coast and mid us. However, States from west coast such as California showing a relative big increase from the last year.

This map shows the over the year changes in the count of establishments, again we can see California takes the leading position.

In order to show the average weekly wages by states more clearly, we plotted this interactive bar chart for our visualizations. Here we can see the state with the highest weekly wage by states is Massachusetts, and the state with the least weekly wage by state is Mississippi.

Here we plotted the relationship between the average weekly wages for each county with the population of each county, and we tried to include the result from linear, quadric and cubic regression modesl to fit our data. This plot demonstrate the regression plot from three aspects, which including linear, quadratic and cubic, showing the relationship between average weekly wage and population.

In this plot, we selected four representative states to build a box plot the check the distribution of average weekly wage for these states, here we can see the distribution of average weekly wage is quite different for different states.

We selected four representative states for horizontal comparison, and their average income distributions still show different distribution patterns as shown in the figures.